Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 0:32:04 GMT -5
This is one of the many ideas we have gathered from listening to almost 8,000 children and girls, from 14 different countries in these months.
The best way to celebrate November 20, Universal Children's Day because on this date the Declaration of their rights was approved, is by listening to their voices, letting ourselves be challenged by what they are telling us. saying and mak Chinese Overseas Asia Number Data ing this commemoration a reminder of one's basic rights, the right to freely express one's opinion on all matters, and to be listened to on issues that have to do with them.
No, it is not evident that we listen. to childhood. A few days ago we remembered it in our country with the ActivaLa Escucha campaign and the simulated hacking of the networks by the group OchoComaDos , the 8.2 million boys and girls who live in Spain and who demand our attention , “because not listening to us is a form of violence.”
At Educo we are convinced that education is the most powerful tool to build a more equitable society , to ensure the rights and well-being of boys and girls around the world... but we are also convinced that we must ensure a comprehensive education. broad, that incorporates all the stages, all the actors and all the contexts that influence childhood education. An education that challenges, that transforms the current system and that recognizes that the first step to generate change is to listen to its protagonists. An education that involves and listens to boys and girls as subjects of rights and that takes their opinions into account, because they have many things to tell us and there is much to do.
Spaces for participation and listening
It is our aspiration to create spaces that ensure that participation and listening. We are doing it in the countries where we work throughout the process of our projects, or by accompanying listening clubs , children's committees, children's councils...
On this occasion, we have also done it with a global survey . We have asked them in a close, friendly way... opening spaces for them to express themselves. Now we collect everything we have heard and share it to ensure, not only that these voices are the cornerstone of our interventions, but that they can also influence families, communities, schools, governments... the key actors so that rights of girls and boys advance.
On this occasion we have asked them how the pandemic has affected their lives, and more specifically their education. They have shared a good part of them and they could not study due to the closure of the schools and because there were no alternatives or those that existed did not fit their possibilities.
An improved school
In a context where in many countries we still find closed or partially closed centers, children and adolescents are telling us that they prefer to study at school, they share with us that it is a space that allows them to learn more and better, which they highly value. the relationships they develop with their peers and with the teachers and that in it they find more possibilities to play. 80% have missed school, and girls more so. They want to go back, but they also want to go back to a school that offers them everything they had before and makes it better. They want a “greener” school, more connected to the environment, but they also know well what advantages digital education offers them when it is quality and they want to be able to combine the best of each modality. They are very clear about which school they want.
Many of the reflections these days in the workplace are linked to the return to the offices, the expansion of teleworking, the learning we have obtained and the changes that we will incorporate in a work dynamic that does not have to be the same as the one from almost two years ago. Boys and girls are asking us for the same reflection at school: what have we learned that allows us to change the usual dynamics? The boys and girls want to return, but they want to return to a renovated school, just as adults want to incorporate improvements after what we have experienced.
The reality is that the participation of girls, boys, adolescents and young people during an emergency is often overlooked and in this pandemic we have done it again. There has been a lack of spaces that would allow us to address situations from what the minors in our homes live, think and feel, from what affects and excites them. Sometimes, and the survey gives us clues about them, there is not even awareness of this right of participation and therefore its exercise becomes more difficult.
The best way to celebrate November 20, Universal Children's Day because on this date the Declaration of their rights was approved, is by listening to their voices, letting ourselves be challenged by what they are telling us. saying and mak Chinese Overseas Asia Number Data ing this commemoration a reminder of one's basic rights, the right to freely express one's opinion on all matters, and to be listened to on issues that have to do with them.
No, it is not evident that we listen. to childhood. A few days ago we remembered it in our country with the ActivaLa Escucha campaign and the simulated hacking of the networks by the group OchoComaDos , the 8.2 million boys and girls who live in Spain and who demand our attention , “because not listening to us is a form of violence.”
At Educo we are convinced that education is the most powerful tool to build a more equitable society , to ensure the rights and well-being of boys and girls around the world... but we are also convinced that we must ensure a comprehensive education. broad, that incorporates all the stages, all the actors and all the contexts that influence childhood education. An education that challenges, that transforms the current system and that recognizes that the first step to generate change is to listen to its protagonists. An education that involves and listens to boys and girls as subjects of rights and that takes their opinions into account, because they have many things to tell us and there is much to do.
Spaces for participation and listening
It is our aspiration to create spaces that ensure that participation and listening. We are doing it in the countries where we work throughout the process of our projects, or by accompanying listening clubs , children's committees, children's councils...
On this occasion, we have also done it with a global survey . We have asked them in a close, friendly way... opening spaces for them to express themselves. Now we collect everything we have heard and share it to ensure, not only that these voices are the cornerstone of our interventions, but that they can also influence families, communities, schools, governments... the key actors so that rights of girls and boys advance.
On this occasion we have asked them how the pandemic has affected their lives, and more specifically their education. They have shared a good part of them and they could not study due to the closure of the schools and because there were no alternatives or those that existed did not fit their possibilities.
An improved school
In a context where in many countries we still find closed or partially closed centers, children and adolescents are telling us that they prefer to study at school, they share with us that it is a space that allows them to learn more and better, which they highly value. the relationships they develop with their peers and with the teachers and that in it they find more possibilities to play. 80% have missed school, and girls more so. They want to go back, but they also want to go back to a school that offers them everything they had before and makes it better. They want a “greener” school, more connected to the environment, but they also know well what advantages digital education offers them when it is quality and they want to be able to combine the best of each modality. They are very clear about which school they want.
Many of the reflections these days in the workplace are linked to the return to the offices, the expansion of teleworking, the learning we have obtained and the changes that we will incorporate in a work dynamic that does not have to be the same as the one from almost two years ago. Boys and girls are asking us for the same reflection at school: what have we learned that allows us to change the usual dynamics? The boys and girls want to return, but they want to return to a renovated school, just as adults want to incorporate improvements after what we have experienced.
The reality is that the participation of girls, boys, adolescents and young people during an emergency is often overlooked and in this pandemic we have done it again. There has been a lack of spaces that would allow us to address situations from what the minors in our homes live, think and feel, from what affects and excites them. Sometimes, and the survey gives us clues about them, there is not even awareness of this right of participation and therefore its exercise becomes more difficult.